The Regnum Christi Movement offers its members some guidelines of a gospel-based spirituality as an ideal of Christian life. The spiritual path that Regnum Christi members walk mainly consists in knowing, loving, imitating, and proclaiming Christ. This is the path and these are the goals.

Below, we offer some resources that can help nurture the spiritual life of Movement members and of any Christian.

Before the
feast of Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had
come to pass from this world to the Father. He
loved his own in the world and he loved
them to the end. The devil had already induced
Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, to hand him over.
So, during supper, fully aware that the Father had
put everything into his power and that he had come
from God and was returning to God, he rose
from supper and took off his outer garments. He
took a towel and tied it around his waist. Then
he poured water into a basin and began to
wash the disciples´ feet and dry them with the towel
around his waist. He came to Simon Peter, who
said to him, "Master, are you going to wash
my feet?" Jesus answered and said to him, "What I
am doing, you do not understand now, but you
will understand later." Peter said to him, "You will
never wash my feet." Jesus answered him, "Unless I
wash you, you will have no inheritance with me." Simon
Peter said to him, "Master, then not only my
feet, but my hands and head as well." Jesus
said to him, "Whoever has bathed has no need except
to have his feet washed, for he is clean
all over; so you are clean, but not all."
For he knew who would betray him; for this reason,
he said, "Not all of you are clean." So
when he had washed their feet and put his
garments back on and reclined at table again, he said
to them, "Do you realize what I have done
for you? You call me ´teacher´ and ´master,´ and
rightly so, for indeed I am. If I, therefore, the
master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought
to wash one another´s feet. I have given you a
model to follow, so that as I have done
for you, you should also do."

Introductory Prayer: Lord
Jesus, I wish to accompany you closely on the
road to Calvary. If I were to contemplate you
more often as you hang scourged and bloody upon the
cross, I’m certain I would be able to rest
in your love and base my actions on that one
truth. I know that you have loved me with
an eternal love: you have proven it there on
the wood of the cross. So I long to respond
with gratitude, peace and the firm determination to spread
your love to everyone.

Petition: Lord, grant me the
grace of final perseverance in the faith.

1. The Proof of
His Unwavering Love: “Jesus knew that his hour had
come to pass from this world to the Father.” Jesus
did not suffer crisis of identity. Throughout his entire
public ministry he showed an awareness of who he
was (the Fathers Anointed One) and what he had come
to do (his mission). He knew the trials that
were soon to crush his mortal body. They would
be a means to prove his worth: his love. “He
loved his own in the world and he loved
them to the end.” Love endures anything. Love can draw
forth good even from the worst of situations. Love
redeems. The very betrayal of his friendship will let
him demonstrate the authenticity of his own friendship: “There
is no greater love than to lay one’s life down
for one’s friends.”

2. Acceptance of Christ’s Love: Jesus has
not asked ‘permission’ to be humble and of service. Peter’s
question, “Master, are you going to wash my feet?”
does not come as a request, rather as a
resistant acknowledgement of what Jesus is about to do. Do
humility and love need our ‘permission’? The question is:
who is humble enough to receive someone else’s love?
Am I humble enough to receive Jesus’ love for me?
Jesus’ humility and charity are purifying in their effect.
In fact, precisely the attitude, “You will never wash
my feet,” needs to be washed away. Only the poor
in spirit, the pure of heart, the childlike enter
the Kingdom of heaven: “Unless I wash you, you
will have no inheritance with me.” Let Christ bathe
me, then, by his graceful example. Anything less, I will
lose my part with him. Yet if he has
bathed me by his word, then I must only keep
my feet clean.

3. The Precious Lesson: If I am
a disciple, I must be careful to learn the
lesson. Jesus asks, “Do you realize what I have
done for you?” If anything, the master could demand that
his servant wash his feet, not the other way
around. Jesus is Lord and master, he is the
Good Teacher. I am his disciple. Nonetheless, he has demonstrated
his authority not by exacting obedience through exertion of
force, rather by revealing the power of virtue: humility
and charity – and their capacity to teach and
persuade. “If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed
your feet, you ought to wash one another´s feet.”
He has given me a model to follow, so that
I go and do likewise. Whose feet am I
meant to wash?

Conversation with Christ: Lord, continue to
bathe me with your word so that I may
be found clean. Grant me the humility and charity to
imitate your virtues. I wish to learn to wash
the feet of others, so give me the grace to
let down my defenses and simply reach out to
do good, without worrying how others may react to
me.

Resolution:Today I will humble myself to serve someone
in need, especially anyone toward whom I have negative
sentiments.

The daily meditation is a service of Regnum Christi that offers people a Gospel reflection through e-mail. You can view the weekly meditation on this link or listen the podcast version here.